Church Digital Signage Examples and Use Cases

The church is often fast to adapt and adopt new technology. Many churches have embraced websites and social media, and there are plenty of influencers in the world of worship too. But when it comes to engaging real world communication, the technology on everyone’s minds is digital signage.

But what is digital signage, and does your church need it?

What is church digital signage?

Digital signage at its most basic is content on screens and TV monitors that you use within your physical landscape to share and collate information. Digital signage for your church community can be a mixture of inspiring content such as quotes, social media feeds, image galleries or digital bulletin noticeboards giving useful and timely information and advice to your congregation.

Digital signs have seen rapid adoption across many industries due to their versatile nature. And this is what makes digital church signs so appealing for many.

We're going to look at some of the best examples of church digital signage in this post. But before we get started looking at the case studies, here are some great ideas for using digital signage for churches.

• Welcome messages
• Event promotions and announcements
• Live streaming sermons
• Inspirational messages and quotes
• Local community events and promotions
• Sharing your social media content

While most of the digital signage for churches in our examples is used for indoor digital screens, it is also possible to use robust LED church signs for outdoor digital signs too.

So these are just some of the ways churches can embrace digital signs. How does this work in the real world?

Read more: How to attract and retain church members.

Church digital signage case studies

First Baptist Greenville: Modern community communication

If you’re still in two minds about whether your church is ‘modern’ enough to have its own digital signage display, this is a great example of an established church embracing technology. First Baptist Greenville, a North Carolina church founded back in 1831, has recently deployed its first digital signage display.

First Baptist Greenville is a champion of inclusion and also recognizes that its congregation, like most of today’s world, is pretty tech savvy. To get them on board with notices and communication, it implemented a digital signage channel. This church digital signage network shares:

• Announcements and news
• Details of church events such as service times and mid-week opportunities
• Community events information
• New member photos and member milestones such as birthdays, anniversaries, and childbirth

The network of screens and TV monitors is placed in high footfall areas throughout the church, as well as the gym and recreational center to provide health tips and motivational messaging. What a great way to make congregation members spend more time not only at the church, but in the gym too!

Like any digital signage network, this becomes a more cost-effective way to share information (no more printing out of notices or flyers). 

Faith Community Bible Church: Clarity and information

Faith Community Bible Church is a relatively new congregation (2003 onwards) that recently implemented a great digital signage display using ScreenCloud. 

The church needed to display information about upcoming events and the current sermon series in a way that was beautiful and appealing. While they could have used static signs, screens not only create a better ambience but also communicate the information in what they believe is a more appealing way.

These images highlight how they use multiple screens to create a split image poster regarding upcoming events or charitable initiatives.

Using our easy to use content management system, the church changes their images weekly, creating regular posters for sermons and other events.

This is a great case study to show how digital signage for churches doesn’t have to be complicated or technical. With the right system and a little creativity, it’s easy to get all of your information up onto screens in a stylish and engaging manner.

The Church Without Walls: Social sharing

You can gather posts from the church’s social media profiles, as well as pictures or videos that members of your community post on social media tagged with your hashtag, all in one unified feed that you can display on a digital signage.

What better to transmit a sense of belonging than a feed full of photos with emotive captions from your community and posts from your profile? Take The Church Without Walls, for example. 

This church in Houston, Texas uses their social wall for many purposes including:

• Promoting virtual bible study groups
• Highlighting church members’ achievements
• Posting inspirational bible verses
• Sharing footage of services

And so much more...

The wall collects content from both the church’s social media profiles and community members, which creates a feeling of community and tells the story of a congregation that sticks together.

The Church Without Walls encourages people to use the hashtag #iamtcww on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook to be featured on the community’s social wall powered by Walls.io. 

Legacy Church: Live streaming and learning

We came across Legacy Church in a case study online and were impressed by their digital signage efforts as well as how many different use cases they had implemented. 

Legacy Church, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico implemented 60 individual screen displays throughout its campus as a multi-screen video wall for the foyer that could live stream sermons to guests on arrival.

Many of the digital screens at Legacy Church support its classroom programme, with a screen outside each room that provides class details, instructor names and graphics specific to that class and lesson. This alleviates the need for staff who are solely positioned to hand out paper leaflets. The content is also set up on a schedule so that it updates itself in time with lesson plans. You can build something similar with individual screens, or with a full church LED video wall behind your platform.

Crossroads Church: The Prayer experience

As well as a standard digital signage display used in churches to present information, updates and social media feeds, you also have those who really push the boundaries of what can be achieved.

Enter Crossroads Church, located across Ohio and Kentucky who used digital signage to showcase the ‘power of prayer’. This is an art installation that was setup across a series of rooms, using digital signage through screens and projection to create different environments to help communicate prayer information.

The difference between this use of digital signage and traditional displays, is that it has been set up to create an immersive ‘experience’, where stories are brought to life and told to the audience.

Creating your own digital signage for churches

Digital signage helps many churches old and new, to implement communication networks that connect better with audiences.

Setting up a digital signage network can be done using consumer grade hardware such as standard TVs or computer monitors. Connect all of these devices using either smart TV technology, or use a standard Fire Stick or Google Chromecast. All you need then is digital signage software such as ScreenCloud to easily share content between them.

What's more, the content shown on the screens doesn't need to be complicated. Simple posters, image galleries and notice boards all work great. But there is a world of opportunity too, from live streaming or video presentations, to social media integration.

To set up your own digital signage church display we offer a 14-day free trial of our digital signage cloud-based software. We also offer a 5% discount for all non-profit organizations. 

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